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When I made a first draft of what we wanted to demonstrate with our demo
software, I included county-level tabulation. That's where the different
scoring methods come into play. We had to scale back a bit on the demo
software. As it was, we had four applications running:

> Dear Arnie,
>
> Since, as you say, the goal here is to have an open source solution which
is
> voting method neutral, then the bottom line (for now) is to make sure the
> "counting" of the votes keeps tracks of the proper statistics. Hence, in
> addition to keeping track of how many 1st choice, 2nd choice, and 3rd
choice
> votes (etc.) a candidate gets, the software should also keep track of what
I
> was calling the "Margin of Victory Matrix," or what Arnie was calling (I
> think) the Condorcet scores of each binary relationship. In other words,
we
> need to know by how many votes Candidate A would beat Candidate B by in a
> head-to-head matchup (which can be determined by looking at each voter's
> preferences), for all possible combinations of two candidates.
>
> Best,
> Hubert Bray
>
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